Rosalind,   Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!   I am so happy that you were able to advertise the 72-hour Online “Jam Session” on Sunday, February 16th until Tuesday, February 18th.   You are enormous asset to the Jewish society.  ...

Hi Rosalind,   Thank you so much for your article on Chita Rivera . It is wonderful and quite amusing 🙂   Kindest regards, Annikki Lotta Promotions and Communications  Valley Performing Arts Center www.valleyperformingartscenter.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 6, 2014 OTTAWA, ON – Yesterday, the Honourable Irwin Cotler, MP for Mount Royal, announced that he will not be seeking re-election at the end of this term of Parliament. In response, Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO of the Centre for...

In all fairness, it should be pointed out that there are a considerable number of Canadian Jews who are quite upset, if not angry, with the fact that our Prime Minister is so gung-ho for Israel and appears to believe that Israel can do no wrong.   David Pinto...

Lt.-Gov. Philip S. Lee will present the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Advancement of Inter-religious Understanding to Dr. Lloyd Axworthy at a ceremony at Government House at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28.   Dr. Axworthy is a life-long, active lay...

This was my proudest moment of being a Jewish Canadian... too bad the leftist media in Israel ignored our Prime Minister's visit.  If you get a chance, see if you can get an interview with Channel 2 and Channel 10 in Israel and ask them why our Prime Minister...

STATEMENT BY THE LEADER OF THE OFFICIAL OPPOSITION ON INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  January 27, 2014  The Leader of the Official Opposition, Tom Mulcair (Outremont), made the following statement on Holocaust...

All are welcome to attend the following talk.  Please feel free to print and post the attached flyer, and pass it along to others who may be interested.   The Judaic Studies Program, the Department of English, Film, and Theatre and the Department of...

January 14, 2014   Memo to Editor, Winnipeg Jewish Review From Don Harrison, editor, San Diego Jewish World   I enjoyed reading Rhonda Spivak's story on "bedbugs for peace" and would like to request reprint permission with, of course, full...

 Winner of Best Canadian Feature at TIFF KINOSMITH presents a Sudden Storm Entertainment Production   When Jews Were Funny A film by Alan Zweig   Winner Best Canadian Feature at Toronto International Film Festival and? Named Top 10 Canadian Film...

January 7, 2014, Toronto — B’nai Brith Canada is applauding the upholding of an earlier court decision to stop funding the Canadian Arab Federation over concerns it appeared to support terrorist organizations and promote antisemitism.   "As...

 Fascinating, Rhonda! We have all learned something from your personal investigation which enables us to know more about our own history.   - Chana Givon

Hi Rhonda, Rabbi Pinsker won the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 2013 writing contest again. It was in the WFP yesterday. You may want to include it in the WJR again. May lift his spirits from the all the events that he went through here. Thank-you. Happy other New Year!...

Hi, My name is Karen Coleman. I run OnlinePoliticalSciencedegree.org a new site dedicated to Political Science education and resources. You can visit my site at http://onlinepoliticalsciencedegree.org/ I am hoping to spread the word about my site and let all those...

Hi: I invite you to visit my new website www.israelimage.net. This website has a new feature where you can download photos. I will be adding more photos to reach the first 50,000. Please share this website with friends and other people.   Thank you, Jack Hazut...

Thank you for this excellent article ... while I'm gentile, I am and always will be an admirer & ally of Jews everywhere -- and particularly those in Israel. There would not be an America without the moral & philosophical foundation put down by Judaism...

Hi Rhonda- Thank you for this article - the many ways Jews have been able to be persecuted over time is unfathomable, and that we can be continued to be demonized in a multitude of ways in to-day's presumably "enlightened" times....

Hi Rhonda!   Amazing articles about your great grandfather (David Spivak) and also aboutthe Corne family name !  I loved Ari Posen's article too... So well written!   Fabulous work !   - Susan Meged

Hi Rhonda:   Two  Great  pieces - by Avi Posen and the piece on Carnie Rose - who is right on! What a wonderful testament to the Jews we are raising. - Sid Halpern

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu:   I am writing to you for the first time. First let me say I love Israel. I went to school in the mid-70s in Israel and yes I even learned how to use a gun and put one together in the dark. This is all in the way of saying although...

Toronto, ON – On Sunday, the American Studies Association (ASA) adopted a boycott against Israeli academic institutions.   In response, David Koschitzky, Chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), issued the following statement:   ...

Letter to the Editor I stand corrected, having said in my recent Levy Report article that two-thirds of the British Mandate was lopped off to create a new country called Trans-Jordan, corrected not only by the Don James article of Nov. 6th in the WJR, but also by my...

Toronto, ON – On learning of the passing of Nelson Mandela, David Koschitzky, Chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), issued the following statement:                ...

Dear Editor,   At this point I challenge anyone to convince me, that the Arabs, (who call themselves 'Palestinians' as of 1967,) are serious about wanting a state of their own.   They certainly do not deserve to be a full fledged nation amongst those...

Hi Rhonda:   I wonder if this would be a story of interest for the Winnipeg Jewish Review, covering all news west of Toronto (and even from BC).   A debut performance with Yo-Yo Ma by a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor in Boston grabbed headlines around the...

 Very interesting and disturbing! Write them and update re their answer. - Cheryl Hechter, Israel

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs deplores the Quebec Government's intransigence Montreal, November 7, 2013 - Statement by Eric Maldoff and Luciano G. Del Negro, respectively Chair and Vice-President of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs-Québec...

Hi Rhonda. I continue to read the WJR with interest and appreciation.  It is full of thoughtful and newsy articles not easy to find otherwise, and your travelogues are always well-written and readable.  I just read your piece on the garden tomb, and I should...

Since the [S]election of Hassan Rouhani in Iran, the Islamic Regime has gone on a rampage of mass executions in order to create an atmosphere of fear and terror among Iranians, in an attempt to prevent any opposition against the Regime. The past week alone saw the...

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is pleased to announce the launch of its Directory of Experts on the Middle East & Jewish Affairs for use by journalists, academics, and policy centres. Based on the former Canada-Israel Committee's highly...

Rhonda, Throughout history we are suddenly prompted to experience a revelation, not from thinking or doing great and wonderful things, but from the most mundane, often having nothing to do with the revelation we are instantly awakened to.   eg. Archimedes...

October 23, 2013, TORONTO -- Jewish human rights organization, B’nai Brith Canada, is asking Amazon to remove Nazi paraphernalia and Holocaust denial material from its online store. “All the equipment needed to create a neo-nazi hate club is unfortunately...

Do you know of any place I can find information  on Adolph Bieber circa 1881.   I have found out thru Manitoba archives that he was the original owner of my house on Gertie St.  in 1881, which he had built for 3500 dollars a tidy sum at the time and he...

Dear Rhonda: I was fascinated by your article on the old Zürich synagogue, and the background story of the Zürich Jews. I lived in Zürich from 1961 until 1967, whilst studying chemical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The...

Dear Rhonda,   My father, Dave Kaplan, keeps me up to date with the Winnipeg Jewish seen by sending your review and the WJP.  I was reading your story on Shiteiren (the word caught my eye!) and I wanted to bring to your attention a minor correction in your...

Attn: Ben Harris, News Editor. JTA When Abbas was at the UN, JTA chose to run a headline which took Abbas’s declarations for peace at face value:  “Abbas to U.S. Jews: Culture for peace better now than in 2000s”...

Jerusalem, October 8 …Shalem College, the first institute of higher education in Israel based on the American model of liberal arts study, held its opening ceremony on October 6 at the Kiryat Moriah campus in Jerusalem.  The inaugural class of 50...

Hello everyone ,   I am proud to inform you that a new website is being launched www.aliyah2day.com   The website is called Aliyah 2 Day (as in make Aliyah doday!) and it aims to serve the Jewish community worldwide.   What is Aliyah 2 day? It is a...

I believe the first step to be taken here  is to send out a community-wide questionnaire, asking questions at both ends, I.e., who would send/take their children to such a program, if it existed, and who would volunteer to assist as instructors, facilitators,...

This is a great idea--long overdue.  However, the synagogues would need qualified Jewish educators to undertake this. This would mean hiring adult educators, with graduate degrees in Jewish education or something related to it, who could plan consistent...

Hi Rhonda, Please see below our response to Rabbi Green’s comments during Yom Kippur: Due to the aging demographic issues that are becoming more significant and common across North America,  Congregation Etz Chayim is in the process of developing a future...

I was thankful to find your article online about the index of gravestones in Canada.  Last January, I buried my 83 year old partner of 10 years, with the most generous help of our Rabbi and synagogue, Temple Beth Or, Everett, Washington.  Barney Gorenstein,...

You do not have to go to Germany to see crucifixes. In Quebec they seem to be in every public space including the legislature. In Winnipeg take a walk through St Boniface Hospital. The majority of the monies to run the Hospital come from the provincial government, yet...

Toronto, Canada - September 23, 2013: August 2013 set a new all-time high for Canadian tourism to Israel with the arrival of 6,106 travelers, an 8% increase compared to the same period last year.   Approximately 2.3 million travelers from around the world arrived...

Hi Rhonda, My wife and I are visiting our grandchildren and missed Kol Nidrei/Yom Kippur at our shul. Thank you for your excellent coverage of the updates provided by Rabbi Green and Brent Schachter. You nailed all the issues clearly and (undoubtedly) accurately. Keep...

Toronto, Canada - September 16, 2013: Residents and travelers to Tel Aviv can now access free WiFi connections in 80 locations throughout the city as part of a new project initiated by the Tel Aviv Municipality. Voted as one of the "Three Most Innovative...

Montréal -- The proposed Quebec Charter of Values breaches fundamental freedoms enshrined in both the Canadian and Quebec Charter of Rights according to B’nai Brith Canada. The Jewish human rights organization finds it completely unacceptable that the...

Dear Editor, Just a short note to let you know how much I enjoy the reviews written by Rosalind Marmel.  She has such an entertaining way of reviewing plays,shows,etc! Thanks, Albert Mindel

Spy Island is an intriguing new historical novel that is perfect for Jewish book clubs. The novel explores the little-known Caribbean Sephardic Jews that colonized such places as Recife, Suriname, Curacao, St. Eustacius, Jamaica, St. Thomas, and Panama. The novel was...

OTTAWA “ The Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, made the following statement today on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah:   As the Jewish community here in Canada and around the world marks Rosh Hashanah “the Jewish New Year“ let...